The theft of a wallet in Victorian London brings together Eddie, a sixteen-year-old pickpocket, George, a conservator at the British Museum, and Elizabeth, an aspiring actress. The three of them will become targets of Augustus Lorimer, a satanic industrialist who intends to produce dinosaurs using artificial means, in order to create a new race of automatons that will help him conquer the world. Eddie, George, and Elizabeth will need to use all their ingenuity to escape from a formidable army of thugs, zombies, and monsters, and to keep an explosive document in their hands.

An atmospheric mystery novel, with fast-paced action, humor, twists, surprises, and a strong reflection on the issue of cloning.